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Brandopplereffect

Just got to all your local substations and shout at the utility crews asking if they’d like to teach you how to be a relay tech.


7_layerburrito

Depends where you work. At my utility all relay techs are journey substation wiremen first. At other utilities I know of, there is a mix of wiremen, engineers, and other crafts trained as relay techs.


Standard-Rich857

Tell me you work for PSE without telling me you work for PSE. The only utility I've ever heard of requiring a journeyman wireman card to touch a relay.


Tone_Lok

At my you utility, relay jobs goes to internal employees 99% of the time. You have to enter as an underground tech helper. From there, once positions become available, you can bid those jobs and it just goes by seniority. Those jobs include; relay, substation mechanics, linemen, or underground tech.


KNUGGY22

What if you’re not a part of a utility but for a contractor?


Tone_Lok

No clue, I only know how my current employer works.


ore905442

Need to run with a testing company which will probably not be ibew.


dr_megamemes

Trying googleing a relay apprenticeship job. It's how i got mine


FreeMorning5931

My utility that bid is only open to journeyman substation electricians


KNUGGY22

Anyone know if the union hall holds these trainings?


onegoodtooth

They do not


cfreddeadredemtion

For my Utility we hire both external and internal. They main thing they want is for you to have and Associates in Electronics to be eligible for the job.